Automation Engineer

About The Job

The MA Bio-Campus is home to Sanofi's digital facility which won ISPE's Facility of the Future and Facility of the Year 2020. As such, the Manufacturing Systems & Automation group is responsible for executing Sanofi's Digital Strategy to deliver innovative solutions. Focused on Digital 4.0, this group is involved in delivering digital solutions for large capital projects as well as continuous improvement and optimizing existing solutions. The group is responsible for design, implementation, support, and maintenance of digital systems aligned with site and company goals. The group is responsible for maintaining stable, qualified, and highly available computing infrastructure and digital software applications. This encompasses work processes that originate with the identification of a new or revised digital systems, the design, installation, verification and validation of the system, the maintenance of the system in its commissioned/qualified/validated state and the retirement of the system at the end of its life.

Responsibilities

This position is responsible for providing automation expertise for small projects. These projects include continuous improvement and retrofit. This person will troubleshoot and support delivery of future enhancements for automation related systems. The Automation Engineer will be responsible for maintaining and providing technical support, ensuring availability of the automation systems for multiple manufacturing facilities.

• Ensuring timely issue escalation to senior management and cross-functional support teams.
• Partnering with support teams (Manufacturing, Quality, etc.) to ensure deliverables are completed to meet production schedules.
• Providing technical solutions to a wide range of process automation related design challenges. Solutions are imaginative, thorough, practical, and consistent with organization objectives.
• Responsible for ensuring process equipment automation is available to support operations schedule requirements.
• Managing small departmental projects and ensuring that the appropriate controls, approvals, and validation requirements are implemented.
• Integrating systems and data from a variety of skidded systems, analytical equipment, and process/building control systems.
• Developing robust solutions that have minimal downtime and ensure data integrity.
• Contributing to the development of automation standards.
• Complying with Sanofi requirements for training.
• Ensuring Inspection Readiness of assigned areas.
• Overseeing completion of investigations and deviations.
• Ensuring all assigned deviations and CAPAs are closed in a timely manner.
• Ensuring that Automation documentation is compliant and inspection ready.
• Participating in inspections conducted by external regulators.
• Complying with requirements from Genzyme's Safety Program including Health and Safety regulations and OSHA requirements.
• Working collaboratively with inter-department and cross-functional teams to contribute to necessary changes in a timely and productive manner.
• Partnering with Manufacturing to troubleshoot and drive resolution of process issues and proactively driving projects to improve manufacturing process.
• Partnering with Operational Excellence to drive process improvements through Kaizens, Kanban, 5S and VSM.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Science or related technological field with at least 6 months hands-on experience in the process automation field preferably in life sciences.
• Direct experience with regulated environments (i.e. cGMP, OSHA, EPA).

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with DeltaV automation.
• Experience with multiple computerized systems (Ignition, Werum PAS-X, PI, etc.).
• Experience with SCADA/PLC systems such as Rockwell Factory Talk/RSLogix, Honeywell.
• Understanding of network infrastructure.
• Experience with systems/network/validation, preferably in the chemical, pharmaceutical, foods, or other process industries.
• Electrical Engineer or Chemical Engineer background.
• Experienced in establishment of safe practices in a cGMP environment.
• Understanding of virtual environments, VMWare, Hyper-V.
• Proficient working with computer programs/applications such as Windows, VBA, MS Word, Excel, Access, etc.
• Strong organizational skills.
• Self-motivated with the ability to work independently and be accountable.
• Proven technical and analytical skills to quickly resolve automation system issues.

Special Working Conditions

• Required manufacturing operations support on a rotating on call 24/7 basis.
• Requires working in an industrial manufacturing environment including gowning.